Rotary depository



Jan. 19, 1960 G,'BLAUVELT 2,921,735

ROTARY DEPOSITORY Filed July 28, 1958 4 Shets-$heet 1 INVENTOR fiozfizvfl BLH 01 15 ATTORNEY Jan. 19, 1960 R. G. BLAUVELT ROTARY DEPGSITORY 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed July 28, 1958 A III/I I III III IN VENTOR [Zazmp f fizzy/1222' Jan. 19, 1960 BLAUVELT 2,921,735

ROTARY DEPOSITORY Filed July 28, 1958 4 Sheets-Sheet 5 INVENTOR 1705mm? l'bfimswrzzz BY jog/b ATTORNEY Jan. 19, 1960 R. s. BLAUVELT ROTARY DEPOSITORY 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 Filed July 28, 1958 mlllllllllllllillllllll INVENTOR 15 051910 flzzmmzr ATTORNEY United States Patent ROTARY DEPOSITORY Roland George Blauvelt, Hamilton, Ohio, assignor to Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Company, Hamilton, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application July 28, 1958, Serial No. 751,389 4 Claims. (Cl. 232-44 The present invention relates generally to rotary depositories which are used by banks to permit deposits during bank closed hours. These depositories are generally designated as night depositories. Specifically, the present invention relates to anti-burglary means for impeding the rotation and locking of a depository cylinder except under prescribed, routine conditions.

Conventional night depositories embody generally a casing having a receiving and a deposit opening and a depository cylinder rotatably mounted therein. Usually, a door is pivoted in the receiving'opening of the casing and this door is operatively connected to the depository cylinder so that upon opening of the door the cylinder is rotated to receiving position and upon closing the door the cylinder is rotated to depositing position. In the instant invention the depository cylinder is provided with an inner depository receptacle which is defined by the ends of the cylinder, top and bottom plates positioned horizontally in the cylinder and a safety door and deposit flap hingedly mounted so as to intersect said top and bottom plates at the cylinder circumference, said door and flap registering respectively with the receiving and deposit openings of the casing upon opening and closing of the pivoted door.

The unique features of the instant invention comprise a notched-tooth, counter weighted baflie pivoted in the casing between the depository cylinder and the deposit opening of the casing. On the counter-weighted end of the baffle is mounted a lock angle. The depository cylinder has a similar lock angle exteriorly attached adjacent the deposit flap. Upon depositing pivoting action of said bafile, the baflle lock angle protrudes into the path of rotation of the cylinder lock angle, said lock angles thus enmeshing and preventing receiving-positioning of the depository cylinder while the baffle is in an attitude of depositing pivoting. Thus, a burglarious attacker in forcing down the bafile plate would be effectively preventing rotation of the depository cylinder for surreptitious withdrawal of deposits.

Numerous previous inventors have attempted to prevent surreptitious entry through a depository cylinder by providing serrated plates which may be fastened in a depository housing throat, serrated edges of such plates registering with corresponding serrations in the depository cylinder. These means have not been altogether satisfactory, since once the baflies have been breached unimpeded entry may be effected. According to the present invention a temporary forcing down of the bafiie plate will not afford unimpeded access. On the contrary, the pivoting downwardly of the baffle plate will cause the baffie plate lock angle to protrude into the rotatable path of the cylinder lock angle, preventing the surreptitious entrant from rotating the cylinder beyond the point of its engagement with the bafile plate lock angle. Thus, there is prevented rotation of the cylinder to opening or depositing position while the baflle plate is in downward or depositing position.

2,921,735 Patented Jan. 19, 1360 Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide in a rotary depository a depository chute bafile plate which is operatively engageable with a depository cylinder to prevent burglarious rotation of said cylinder.

Yet additional objects of invention will become apparent from the attached drawings and ensuing specification wherein like numerals are taken to designate like figures.

Turning now to the drawings:

Fig. l is an end elevational view, partially in section, of a rotary depository casing, receiving chest and depository chute,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view of a depository cylinder and pivoted bafile plate mounted in the depository casing, the cylinder-being in an attitude of depositing positioning.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view of a depository cylinder and pivoted baflle mounted within a depository casing, the cylinder being in an attitude of receiving positioning.

Fig. 4 isan enlarged sectional view taken along section line 66 of Fig. 2 and showing the counter-Weighted end of depository chute bafile,

Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken along section line 77 of Fig. 2 and showing the baffle pivoted on needle bearings in the depository casing,

Fig. 6 is an enlarged fragmentary perspective taken along section line 88 of Fig. 2, showing the notchedtooth edge of the pivoted baflle.

In Fig. l a depository casing is shown mounted in bank masonry wall 20. Adjacent the casing is a depository chute 42 having auxiliary baflie 44 and leading into bank receiving chest 46. The casing comprises parallel side.

plates 26 which are fastened to depository front 22 by means of angle bar braces 28. Rigid support at the rear of the side plates 26 is provided by through bolts 30. In the depository front22 is a depository door 24 pivoted in the casing asat 82 (shown in Figs. 2 and 3) and surrounding the door 24 on three sides is a canted door cover 34. A depository cylinder 36 having journal pins 78 is mounted rotatably between side plates 26 in blocks 80. Exteriorly accessible lock means 32 are provided for locking the drum against rotation and thereby preventing opening of door 24 which is operatively connected thereto. 1

As shown in Fig. 2 a circular drum cover 50 may be inserted bet-ween casing side plates 26. Drum cover 50 may be fastened to mounting plates 56 which interconnect the depository chute 42 and the depository casing.

As shown in Fig. 2 the depository door 24 has appended thereto depository door handle 48. A pivoting link 52 interconnects a side of the depository cylinder and depository door 24. -The depository cylinder has therein depository receptacle 108 which is defined by top plate 74 and bottom plate 76 and at either end is defined by safety door 94 and depositing flap 38. A housing rear cover 58 may be provided as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Pivotally mounted in the casing between the depository cylinder and the deposit opening is pivoted bafile 40, having notched-teeth 60, counter weight 62 and exteriorly attached lock angle 64. Bafile plate 40 is pivoted by means of needle bearings 68 which are housed in bearing plates 90. Pivoting bar 72 is attached to the baffle plate 40 by means of collars 70. As shown in Fig. 4, the counter weighted end of the bafiie plate 40 is accommodated by bafile plate support bracket 92 which is provided with rubber bushings 66.

As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, exteriorly attached to the rotary drum adjacent the deposit opening is lock angle 65. As will be seen, downward depositing-pivoting of baffle plate 40 causes bailie plate lock angle 64 to protrude into the rotatable path of cylinder lock angle 65. Thus, an attempt at opening rotation of the cylinder to receiving position while baflie plate lock angles to enmesh and a burglarious entrant will be prohibited, thusly, from opening the depository cylinder to recover any objects which might have been fished from the receiving chest. As an extra safeguard against fishing from the receiving chest auxiliary baffle plate 44 portion of depository chute festly, these improvements serve to impede burglarious entry and burglarious withdrawal of deposited articles.

It is to be understood that the form of invention here- With shown and described, is to be taken as a preferred example of the same, and that various changes in the shape, size and arrangement of parts may be resorted to, without departing from the spirit of my invention or the scope of the subjoined claims.

' I claim:

7 1 A rotary depository including a casing having a receiving and deposit opening, a receiving chest and a chute interconnecting said casing and said chest; a depository door pivoted in said receiving opening, a depository cylinder rotatably mounted in said casing, means operatively connecting said depository door and said cylinder, at depository receptacle having a safety door anda deposit flap within said cylinder, said safety door and said deposit flap registering, respectively, with said receiving and deposit openings; a counter-weighted, notchtooth baflie pivoted in said deposit opening of said casing; said cylinder having a lock angle exteriorly attached adjacent said deposit flap member of said receptacle and said counter-weighted bafiie having a lock angle attached adjacent an end nearest said cylinder, said lock angle of 40 is depressed will cause the 7 flap registering respectivelywvith said of said counter-weighted baflie, said bafiie having a lock angle attached to its counter weighted end, said lock angle of said baffle upon depositing-pivoting action of said bathe protruding into the path of rotation of said cylinder lock angle, receiving-positioning of said cylinder thus being opposed by said lock angles while said baffle is in an attitude of depositing-pivoting;

3. In a rotary depository including a casing having receiving and deposit openings and a depository cylinder rotatably mounted between said openings, the 'combination of a loci; angle exteriorly aifixed to said cylinder and a counter weighted batiie plate having a lock angle aifixed at its counter-weighted end, said bafile being pivoted in said deposit opening, said lock angle of. said baflie upon depositing-pivoting action of said bafiie plate protruding into the path of rotation of said lock angle of said cylinder, receiving-positioning of said cylinder being opposed by said lock angles while .saidjbafiie is in .an attitudefof depositing-pivoting. p

4. A rotary depository including acasing having receiving and deposit openings; a depository door pivoted in saidr eceiving opening; a depository cylinderrotatably mounted insaid casing; means operatively connectingsaid depository door and said cylinder; a depository deceptacle within sai d cylinder defined at front and back, respectively, by safety doorand deposit flap hingedly mounted in the cylinder circumference, said safety door and deposit 7 receiving and depository openings;'and a counterrweighted baflie pivoted i i-saidcasing between said depository cylinder and said deposit opening, said cylinder having a lock angle exteriorly attached adjacentnsaid,depositflap of said de- 1 pository receptacle and saidcounter-weighted bafiiehavsaid bafiieupon depositing pivoting action of said bafile protruding into the path of rotationof said lock angle of said cylinder, thus preventing rotating of said cylinder into receiving position while said baflie is in an attitude of depositing-pivoting.

2. In a rotary depository including a casing having a receiving and a deposit opening and a depository cylinder rotatably mounted therein, a counter-Weighted bafiie pivoted in said deposit opening, said depository cylinder having a lock angle exteriorly attached adjacent an end ing a lock angle attached adjacent an end nearest said cylinder, said lock. angle of saidbaffie upon depositing pivoting action of said baffle protruding into the path of rotation of said lock angle ofs'aid cylinder, into-receivingposition rotation of said cylinder thusv being obstructed by said lock angles while said baflieis in an attitude of depositing pivoting.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS -Hensley Nov. 6, 19 56 

